{"id":148342,"date":"2015-08-05T07:59:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T14:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=148342"},"modified":"2015-08-05T07:59:40","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T14:59:40","slug":"fu-yuanhui-posts-textile-best-in-50-back-semis-at-2015-fina-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/fu-yuanhui-posts-textile-best-in-50-back-semis-at-2015-fina-world-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Fu Yuanhui Posts Textile Best in 50 Back Semis at 2015 FINA World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

China’s Fu Yuanhui<\/strong> lowered her own textile best in the women’s 50-meter back semis at the 2015 FINA World Championships.<\/p>\n

Fu clocked a sizzling time of 27.18, clearing the 27.22 she set back in April of 2013 as the top time done in a textile suit.<\/p>\n

That’s the second best time ever behind only Zhao Jing’s<\/strong> world record of 27.06 from the 2009 World Championships. Incidentally, it also cleared Etiene Medeiros’<\/strong> 27.38 for the top time in the world this year.<\/p>\n

All Time 50 Back<\/strong><\/p>\n[table \u201c\u201d not found \/]
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Medeiros qualified second in 27.41 with Denmark’s Mie Nielsen<\/strong> qualifying third in 27.63.<\/p>\n

China’s Liu Xiang<\/strong> (27.67), Australia’s Emily Seebohm<\/strong> (27.70), Australia’s Madison Wilson<\/strong> (27.83), Great Britain’s Lauren Quigley<\/strong> (27.83) and Greece’s Theodora Drakou<\/strong> (28.01) also made the championship heat.<\/p>\n

USA’s Rachel Bootsma<\/strong>, one of the best sprint backstrokers in the world, scratched prelims after battling an illness that has had her bed-ridden since she arrived in Kazan last week.<\/p>\n

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